Marc, what evidence have you seen to suggest that it is a "military decision?"

After the decision was announced, a senior Trump administration official said,
"This forces Democrats in Rust Belt states like Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin, to take complete ownership of this issue. How will the blue collar voters in these states respond when senators up for re-election in 2018 like Debbie Stabenow are forced to make their opposition to this a key plank of their campaigns?" (source: https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/8…)

Mr. Reed purchased the property Q4 2013 for $800,000, apparently mothballed the project when the state's historic tax credit program changed, and sold it in Q2 2017 for $2,300,000. (source: https://www.arcountydata.com/parcel.asp?it…)

There are all sorts of activism and initiatives in the African-American community to address inner city crime. (Imagine that: A racist conservative pontificating on a subject about which he/she knows nothing.)

Leaving aside the specious claim equating the Black Lives Matter movement with riots and looting, you're missing the essential point: Black Lives Matter is protesting the killing of African-Americans by their government, not by private individuals. I would hope that you would join the protest if the government killed whites or conservatives or southerners at a disproportionate rate, too. The United States has gone to war for less.

Part one of Children in Crisis: An Arkansas Times Special Investigation.

‘Making my own decisions is what got me here.’

Plaintiffs' lawyers made their case today to continue to trial with the civil suit over then-Judge Mike Maggio's reduction of a $5.2 million jury verdict in a nursing home negligence case to $1 million, a reduction he said he made in return for campaign contributions from the nursing home's owner.